After a month of doing that while trying to build an online business, and a little short of losing my sanity, I have started to understand that the ultra nomadic model is a disaster. My initial idea was revolutionary and unsustainable in retrospective: Never spend a night in the same place. I didn’t know what would the nomadic life look like when I started. Be lost and new in a place where you are naturally able to do so. Living as a nomad outside of your natural environment, at least in the beginning, will allow you to experiment with this lifestyle and achieve equilibrium without the pressure of what society (and your ego) are expecting from you. Trying to declare and fulfill your nomadism at home may create unnecessary frictions and worries for your circle. The beauty on the road is not knowing anyone and experimenting the first nomadic steps without your close connections and society judging you. You are letting go of your ego and making a radical definitions change. Once you start moving, it gets harder to deal with infrastructure and bureaucracy from far away and it will distract you from the fun of being away.Įspecially when you start, it can get confusing. Setting up a bank account, bureaucracy with tax authorities, establishing relationships with clients/partners, dealing with mail and other infrastructure, all take time. The idea is simple, stay a few months in your home base before you start moving around. This understanding is especially important if you are building a business, but also relevant for setting up nomadic infrastructure for all of us. Since a nomadic life has a learning curve, you learn a lot in your first destinations, so my initial time in Israel (plus going back to it frequently) produced many valuable lessons along the years which are relevant to this day.īuild it for a few months before you are starting Here, I resigned from my 9-5 accounting job, started my own business, got my first freelancing gig on Odesk (now, Upwork) and made the leap into a nomadic lifestyle. Home base insights: Israel (August 2010 to January 2011+ Annual visits)Īlthough Israel is my home country, it was also the first place where I lived as a nomad. Gaps in the dates below indicates either a hectic period where I move too fast to realize new understandings, or periods where I am back to my home base Israel. If you are interested in a more organized version of my current rules without any reference to the experiences or locations, please refer to my digital nomad case study article. Sometimes it takes years to understand what those important lessons were. Those insights have to be substantial, not a simple Aha moment, but a game changer in a specific area of life that has the potential of true change. In each location (where I stay over a month), my aim is learn to something that I can take with me as a habit or an insight for the future.
The second, a diary of where I have been, and my own documentation of how my nomadic lifestyle is evolving. The first, a self-reminder of lessons I have learnt while traveling which have also proven to stand the test of time.
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